F-2011-02179 INITIAL REQUEST

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05756230
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2022
• Case Number: F-2020-01448
• Publication Date: September 7, 2011

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4 TIMES SQUARE
NEW YORK, NY 10036-7441
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
FAX: [phone]
Dear Information and Privacy Coordinator,
September 6,2011
Under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 US-C. Subsection 552, I am requesting all documents
related in whole or in part to direct or indirect contacts between the Central Intelligence Agency
and the West German rock and roll band The Scorpions, between 1985 and 1992. The Scorpions
were one of the first western popular music acts to perform behind the iron Curtain, and
participated in the Moscow Music Peace Festival, an event featuring numerous western rock acts,
on August 12-13, 1989.
I am a representative of the news media. This request is for an article I am writing for The New
Yorker magazine, where I am a contributor, so a punctual reply within the time allotted by FOIA
will be greatly appreciated. If there are any fees associated with fulfilling this request, please
notify me before processing if the amount exceeds $300.00.
If CIA regards any of these documents as potentially exempt from disclosure under the FOIA, I
hope that the agency will nevertheless exercise its discretion to disclose them. The passage of
time, along with geopolitical events in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, have reduced
any potential harm, and there is a valid public interest in disseminating this historical information,
so disclosure is warranted.
If you deny all or any pan of this request, please cite each specific exemption you think justifies
your refusal to release the information, as twill appeal if necessary. Finally, if you determine that
some portions of the documents in question cannot be released, the FOIA requires the release of
all reasonably segregable portions of records.
If you have any questions about handling this request, please call me at
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Contributor, The New Yorker Magazine
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